no.30 130530 Thank you for the family exercise time

Bike trail and the beautiful sunset

 

First of all, I want to apologize that today's entry is not about today. It's something that happened yesterday but because I had another story which had to be written yesterday, I had to rain check it for today. Actually, there is one more story that I wanted to write about, but I'm gonna have to rain check that for another day as well.

 

Yesterday, my dad, my sister and I went out for dinner. We went for jja-jang-myun (Korean Chinese noodle dish) because my sister was craving it for a long time. I was hanging out with my friends, so I met my dad and my sister at the restaurant. It felt strange meeting my family outside because we would normally go out together. I wasn't the only one who felt this way - both my dad and Sunny felt the same.

 

It was still bright after dinner, so we decided to go for a walk at the park in the neighbourhood (it's the same park that I mentioned before). The park/trail was more crowded than the first time I went. I'm not sure if I've already mentioned this before, but when I went to check out the bike trail for the first time with Sunny, there was pretty much no one on the trail. Maybe more people came out to exercise because the weather was getting nicer. But it definitely had more than enough room for the three of us to enjoy our time together. We took my bike to the trail as well and we took turns riding it. I was slightly afraid of riding because the seat was too high for me. I couldn't lower it because the seat was lowered to the max. My legs have gotten shorter or something, because I bought my bike more than 5 years ago and I've been riding it no problem. Yeah.. so if I stand on my tiptoes, I can barely touch the ground which is a little dangerous. Thankfully, there was no emergency situation where I had to break abruptly. I loved the breeze when you ride the bike. I enjoyed it very much yesterday.

 

I realized we haven't had a family outing in a while. My dad loves outdoors. As children, we spent a fair amount of time outdoors - camping, hiking, going to the beach, and lots and lots of traveling. He also loves taking photos and he would carry around his camera everywhere. Therefore, although I was too young to remember the things I did with my family, I have old photos to help remind myself about all the wonderful things my parents did for me. Now that Sunny and I are both in our twenties, we're always so busy with our own lives, it's gotten much harder to do any 'family stuff.' The last time we went camping as a family was probably about six to seven years ago. The last time we went hiking was two years ago. It's a sad reality.

 

I'm thankful for the family exercise time. It wasn't just about the exercise that we needed to burn off the fat from the jja-jang-myung we ate - it certainly was a fun quality time that we all missed.